Club Specialty Overseas, Inc.

Last year as Sega distributor

I just want to point this out... it looks that 1972 was their last year as a Sega worldwide distributor ... these are Sega Enterprise ads from the 70s... those from 1972 are the last ads featuring the name of the company...--Asagoth (talk) 06:40, 3 December 2018 (CST)

Connection to Service Games, Panama?

Or more appropriately, how is Club Specialty Overseas, Inc. related to Club Overseas Inc., Panama?

• CartridgeCulture (talk) 05:10, 15 September 2021 (EDT)

Fraud and Corruption in Management of Military Club Systems ... because their only "Specialty" was "Money Laundering"....--Asagoth (talk) 06:19, 15 September 2021 (EDT)

awesomeee, thank you so much for the link and info :)

• CartridgeCulture (talk) 06:29, 15 September 2021 (EDT)

You're welcome! ... Most of these "companies" were just "shell corporations" that were run by Martin Bromley 's "Straw Men" such as Richard Stewart or Korwin Hailey... Sega became the company that we know today only when they sold it and left Japan when it became difficult for them to evade taxes and such...--Asagoth (talk) 06:52, 15 September 2021 (EDT)

"Worldwide Distributor?"

Another clarification: The "Worldwide Distributor" thing... was this just fancy marketing for "we're pretty much the only place you can get these", or something to that effect? Obviously they didn't actually have a "worldwide" license, or not in the sense we're used to working with. But this was a while ago and the industry was still relatively-young, so who knows. Maybe they did? I'll admit I'm pretty dang ignorant about this Cashbox-era stuff. Either way.... how would you nutshell this "worldwide distribution" thing simply? Thanks again for any info :))))

• CartridgeCulture (talk) 06:37, 15 September 2021 (EDT)

I'm not sure... Bromley claimed that Service Games, Japan was the official distributor of genuine Mills Bells slot machines in Japan... when in fact they weren't genuine... they were just exact copies of those Mills Bells slot machines... Bromley was able to knock off the Mills mechanism and Mills never had any patents in Japan so he took advantage of that... so it's difficult to say... --Asagoth (talk) 07:15, 15 September 2021 (EDT)